Legal?

shinto · Post by **shinto** » Wed Aug 07, 2002 4:07 pm

Hi im pretty new to amvs, i was wonderin if they are actually legal to make and put on the web. if anyone knows about this please tell!!

jbone · Post by **jbone** » Wed Aug 07, 2002 4:19 pm

I tried putting an AMV of mine on the web, but three dozen huge, muscular guys from the RIAA came over and beat me into a bloody pulp. Then, they stole my keyboard.

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Wed Aug 07, 2002 4:20 pm

The MPAA did the same to me, but I had a 12-gauge double-barrel shotgun-o-death ready.

Meaning: If you can make your argument with a sledgehammer, you're right.

Seriously, I don't think anybody has been sued over making AMVs. Yet.

shinto · Post by **shinto** » Wed Aug 07, 2002 4:25 pm

ok i was just makin sure

Petro · Post by **Petro** » Wed Aug 07, 2002 4:28 pm

The AMV industry looks the other way as long as you don't use the US dubbed audio track anywhere.

As for the RIAA, just hope they don't find out. I'm kind of lucky in this case, since my latest 2 videos use a song not sung by an RIAA owned group - and they know about and like the vids! ^^

Petro · Post by **Petro** » Wed Aug 07, 2002 4:29 pm

of course, for my first 3, I'm screwed just as much as anyone else ^^;

Kamoc · Post by **Kamoc** » Wed Aug 07, 2002 4:38 pm

it's free publicity; like little trailers for every anime in the AMV you see. i don't see how the couldn't like it..

..it might have something to do with where we're getting these clips to use, but that's not our problem if we bought them.

shinto · Post by **shinto** » Wed Aug 07, 2002 4:58 pm

well i have used some zelda footage i got on a free dvd for my music vid so i didn't exactly buy it but i own it

Kamoc · Post by **Kamoc** » Wed Aug 07, 2002 5:20 pm

as long as you bought it i don't think that counts. like roms. they're supported, but only if you bought the original game.

Quu · Post by **Quu** » Wed Aug 07, 2002 5:35 pm

amvs are perfectly legal to make

covered under the fair use clause...

its when you distro it... either on the web... or giviing a tape, dvd, or cd away... that you break the law